Imagine “Hair” with a lot of Beatles covers and all the characters named after characters in Beatles songs. That’s Julie Taymor’s “Across the Universe,” which might have worked better on stage than on screen, where its arch depiction of New York City in the late 1960s is even more dispiriting than that of late ’70s in the awful movie version of “Rent.” Kyle Smith, who is back from his honeymoon tomorrow, will have a full review on Friday. Sony is dumping this into wide release the same weekend where they interred another problem production, “All the King’s Men,” which got massacred a year ago in Toronto.